Director

Roger G. Noll
(650) 723-3894
rnoll@stanford.edu

Senior Fellow, Stanford Center for International Development
Professor of Economics, Professor by Courtesy, Department of Political Science, and Graduate School of Business

Degrees and Awards:
Ph. D, Economics, Harvard University, B.S., California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:
Public policies towards business, rational actor models of public policy making, political behavior and legal processes, the economics and politics of the admission of new states.

Current Research:
The positive theory of the courts, administrative procedures, and judicial review, economics and politics of utility regulation, economics of sports, telecommunications reform in developing countries

Recent Publications:

• "New Tool for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries" co-authors Scott J. Wallsten, George Clarke, Luke Haggarty, Rosario Kaneshiro, Mary Shirley and Lixin Colin Xu Review of Network Economics 3(3) (September 2004), pp. 248-82.
  
  
• "Buyer Power’ and Economic Policy." Antitrust Law Journal 72(2) (2005), pp. 311-40.
  
  
• "Universal Telecommunications Service in India" co-author Scott J. Wallsten. In India Policy Forum 2005-06, Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Pamagariya, eds., pp. 254-87. Brookings Institution.
  
  
• "Designing an Effective Program of State-Sponsored Human Embryonic Stem-Cell Research" Berkeley Law and Technology Journal 21(3) (Summer 2006), pp. 1-33.
  
  
• "Conditions for Judicial Independence" co-authors Mathew D. McCubbins and Barry R. Weingast. Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 15(1) (September/October 2006), pp. 107-29.
  
  
• "Sports Economics after Fifty Years" In Sports Economics after Fifty Years, Placido Rodriquez, Stefan Kesenne and Jaume Garcia, eds., pp. 17-49. University of Oveido Press, 2006.
  
  
• "Broadcasting and Team Sports" Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(3) (July 2007), pp. 400-21.
  
  

Teaching Interests:
Antitrust and regulation, the economic approach to politics, role and methods of economic policy analysis. And, these cross-disciplinary areas: Administrative and constitutional law, political science (American political institutions, comparative policy-making in advanced industrialized democracies, positive political theory), nineteenth century American history.